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Blackwood Aspen Ridge Laboratory is a Blackwood's chief R&D site, the location of the majority of BAST's research and developments occur here. It is wholly funded by Blackwood Global, by 75 percent. Blackwood also contracts out parcels of land for R&D for various companies and governmental agencies.

The site is located in the mountains of Colorado, near the city of Aspen Ridge.

Aspen Ridge was the site of a minor mining boom in the 1900s and the town was stagnant until Blackwood Heavy Industries came into the town. BHI wanted to build its early R&D laboratory in the outskirts of Aspen Ridge and won the petition to build the laboratory. The Aspen Ridge Laboratory was finished in 1948 and had started researching into materials science for better armor plating.

Pre-BG Areas of Research:

 * Chemical Sciences:
 * Electron Microsopy
 * Materials Science
 * Physics

The 2010s:
Aspen Ridge Laboratories fell behind in the field of R&D until Theresa Blackwood took over Blackwood Heavy Industries and merged it into a new company; Blackwood Global. It was then, that Theresa established the Aspen Ridge site as the primary location for the new BAST program of BG.

Aspen Ridge in the late 2010s and into 2020s had been dedicated to researching and developing applications for General Artificial Intelligence, Space Technologies, Medical and Nanotechnology.

Post-BG Areas of Research:

 * Artifical Intelligence
 * Chemical Sciences:
 * Electron Microsopy
 * Nanotechnology
 * Nuclear Medicine
 * Physics
 * Population
 * Space Technologies

Behind the Scenes:
The site name is inspired by John Denver's Aspenglow song.